Cushi
Bible Usage:
- Cushi used 10 times.
- First Reference: 2 Samuel 18:21
- Last Reference: Zephaniah 1:1
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: No
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
1. A messenger, who brought tidings to David
2 Samuel 18:21-32
2. Father of Shelemiah
Jeremiah 36:14
3. Father of Zephaniah
Zephaniah 1:1
Properly "the Cushite," "the Ethiopian," a man apparently attached to Joab's person. (2 Samuel 18:21-25,31,32)
CUSHION, noun
1. A pillow for a seat; a soft pad to be placed on a chair; a bag, stuffed with wool, hair or other soft material.
2. A bag of leather filled with sand, used by engravers to support the plate.
3. In gilding, a stuffing of fine tow or wool, covered by leather, on a board; used for receiving the leaves of gold from the paper, in order to its being cut into proper sizes and figures.
Ladys cushion a plant, a species of saxifraga.
Sea cushion sea pink or thrift, a species of Statice.
CUSHION, verb transitive To seat on a cushion
CUSHIONED, adjective Seated on a cushion; supported by cushions.
CUSHIONET, noun A little cushion.
1. The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2 Samuel 18:32).
2. The father of Shelemiah (Jeremiah 36:14).
3. Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1).
4. Moses married a Cushite woman (Numbers 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush.